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1955

1955-01-01 The anti-LGBTQ Westboro Baptist church was founded. They are known for their picketing, harassment, and slogan “God hates f-gs”.

https://www.godhatesfags.com/

2019

2019-02-01 Republicans launched an anti-gay smear campaign against Pete Buttigieg.

https://kfoxtv.com/news/nation-world/student-says-trump-backers-recruited-him-for-buttigieg-smear

https://epgn.com/2019/05/02/buttigieg-targeted-by-right-wing-operatives-in-antigay-sex-assault-smear/

2021

2021-06-17 The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Catholic charity that wanted to exclude gay couples from the placement of foster children in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia. Justice Samuel Alito felt the ruling did not go far enough, writing, “This decision might as well be written on dissolving paper sold in magic shops”.

https://www.scotusblog.com/2021/06/court-holds-that-citys-refusal-to-make-referrals-to-faith-based-agency-violates-constitution/

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/17/996670391/supreme-court-rules-for-a-catholic-group-in-a-case-involving-gay-rights-foster-c

https://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/stories/supreme-court-rules-in-favor-of-catholic-social-services-philadelphia/

https://www.impactfund.org/legal-practitioner-blog/fulton-decision#:~:text=Catholic%20Social%20Services%2C%20a%20third%2Dparty%20private%20foster,right%20for%20taxpayer%2Dfunded%20foster%20care%20agencies%20to

https://georgiarecorder.com/briefs/supreme-court-sides-with-catholic-agency-in-gay-foster-care-dispute/

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/17/996670391/supreme-court-rules-for-a-catholic-group-in-a-case-involving-gay-rights-foster-c

2021-07-17 Liberty University’s diversity retention officer sued Liberty for discrimination of his race and sexual orientation. Liberty University is a far-right evangelical private school that has been involved with Trump and funded “The Trump Prophecy” film.

https://wset.com/news/local/liberty-university-faces-lawsuit-by-former-employee-lynchburg-virginia-leequan-mclaurin

https://foxsanantonio.com/news/nation-world/liberty-university-faces-lawsuit-by-former-employee-lynchburg-virginia-leequan-mclaurin

2021-09-02 China banned “sissy idols” and effeminate men on TV.

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/02/1033687586/china-ban-effeminate-men-tv-official-morality

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-59576108

2022

2022-06-01 Matt Walsh was featured in the anti-gay propaganda film “What is a Woman”. In the documentary Walsh accused schools of child abuse for allowing gender identity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_a_Woman%3F

2023

2023-04-01 MAGA boycotted Bud Light for featuring transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney in one of their commercials.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Light_boycott

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianbushard/2024/02/06/trump-questions-bud-light-boycott-calling-anheuser-busch-not-a-woke-company/

2023-05-24 After backlash from conservative Christian groups, Target removed Pride Month products.

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/24/1177963864/target-pride-month-lgbtq-products-threats

https://abcnews.com/US/target-faces-criticism-artists-involved-pride-month-products/story?id=99865846

https://www.them.us/story/target-pride-month-collection-protest-explained

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/12/05/target-pride-2023-lawsuit/76799419007/

https://time.com/6282522/target-backlash-lgbtq-merchandise-removal/

2023-11-30 The Russian Supreme Court labelled LGBT as a movement and an “extremist organization”.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/11/30/russia-supreme-court-bans-lgbt-movement-extremist

2024

2024-10-03 A Pennsylvania middle school installed surveillance windows in gender-inclusive bathrooms.

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/gender-inclusive-bathroom-window-pennsylvania-middle-school-rcna173917

2024-10-31 An employee sued Liberty University for wrongful termination after she was fired for disclosing she was transgender. Liberty University is a far-right evangelical private school that has been involved with Trump and funded “The Trump Prophecy” film.

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/liberty-university-sued-former-staffer-fired-disclosing-s-trans-woman-rcna178227

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAjtaQVzPRo

https://www.wvtf.org/news/2026-03-17/federal-appeals-court-hears-case-after-liberty-university-fired-trans-employee

2024-11-18 Nancy Mace pushed to ban transgender bathrooms.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mace-effort-ban-transgender-women-capitols-womens-restrooms/story?id=116009034

2025 January

2025-01-20 During the inauguration Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde begged for mercy on behalf of immigrants and LGBTQ+ people.  Both Fox News and Charlie Kirk condemned Bishop Budde, calling her a “disgrace” and an “embarrassment”. Trump demanded an apology from Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde.

Bishop Budde also received multiple hostile and trolling attacks on social media.

https://x.com/tompawnbadil/status/1882115502061068777

https://x.com/GrahamAllen/status/1881765320890962170

https://twitchy.com/samj/2025/01/21/watch-jd-vances-face-while-listening-to-woke-sermon-at-bipartisan-interfaith-prayer-n2407090

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/desperate-pastors-conservatives-unleash-episcopal-bishop-weaponizing-pulpit-against-trump

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-demands-apology-after-bishop-asked-him-to-have-mercy-on-lgbtq-people-and-migrants

https://x.com/RepMikeCollins/status/1881765967338131546

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOkwPbn-fng

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Dcp-fJhM6U

2025 March

2025-03-20 Trump suspended $175M in funding to the University of Pennsylvania for allowing a transgender athlete on the women’s swim team. In July, Trump released $175M in funding back to University of Pennsylvania only after they agreed to remove transgender Lia Thomas’ records and issue an apology.

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5333675/university-pennsylvania-upenn-trump-suspends-funding-trans-student-athletes

2025 May

2025-05-07 Marjorie Taylor Greene repeatedly banged her gavel during a trans-athlete hearing.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5288680-greene-bangs-gavel-almost-50-times-to-quiet-democrat-in-house-hearing/

2025 July

2025-07-01 Please enjoy this video of Charlie Kirk getting schooled by a Cambridge student about same-sex marriage.

2025-07-17 The 988 suicide and crisis line for LGBTQ+ was permanently shut down.

https://www.thetrevorproject.org/blog/closed-trump-admin-officially-shuts-down-the-988-suicide-crisis-lifelines-lgbtq-youth-specialized-services/

2025-07-21 Derek Huffman moved his family from Texas to Russia to avoid “woke” ideology. Once moved, Russia sent him to the front lines of a combat zone.

https://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/2025/jul/31/texas-man-who-fled-to-russia-to-escape-woke/

2025 August

2025-08-12 MAGA conservatives boycotted the Minnesota Vikings because they had male cheerleaders.

https://www.newsweek.com/minnesota-vikings-male-cheerleaders-backlash-maga-conservatives-2113363

 

2025-08-27 DeSantis ordered Florida communities to remove rainbow street art and threatened to withhold state transportation funding for noncompliance.

https://apnews.com/article/florida-lgbtq-rainbow-crosswalks-desantis-c4fa6e1ff69ea88e5bd8433bf0ccf62a

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/08/ron-desantis-rages-at-cities-that-virtue-signal-with-rainbow-crosswalks/

2025 September

2025-09-18 CSPAN headline, “I’m a woman. Are you a woman?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8KIv5FSol0&list=WL&index=2&t=39s

2025 October

2025-10-28 Texas ruled that judges who refuse to perform gay marriages will not have to face charges of judicial partiality.

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/10/29/texas-judges-gay-marriages-rule-supreme-court/

2026 February

2026-02-11 The White House removed a rainbow Pride Flag from the Stonewall National Monument in New York City.

https://apnews.com/article/stonewall-monument-rainbow-flag-removed-e58b12c1c9482e4b2cf02fef55e0f775

2026-02-27 Pete Hegseth said the US Armed Forces will only support Scouting America if it complies with EO 14173 to end DEI and ban trans kids. He wrote, “Boy scouts should go back to being the Boy Scouts as originally founded, a group that develops boys into men”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/27/scouting-america-transgender-ban-pentagon

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/transgender-youths-are-targeted-in-scouting-america-changes-pushed-by-the-pentagon

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/scouting-america-reaches-accord-with-pentagon-maintain-military-support-2026-02-28/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/02/27/hegseth-scouting-america/

2026 April

2026-04-17 Madison Square Garden used facial-recognition systems to track a trans woman’s movements, including bathroom visits.

https://www.wired.com/story/madison-square-garden-jim-dolan-surveillance-machine/

2026 June

2026-06-30 SCOTUS ruled 6-to-3 to ban trans athletes from participating in women’s sports.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LaZa1VWxkg&list=WL&index=6&t=20s

https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/06/court-rules-that-states-can-exclude-transgender-athletes-from-girls-and-womens-sports-teams/

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-upholds-state-transgender-sports-bans-rcna261384

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/30/politics/transgender-athletes-supreme-court-decision-what-to-know

2026 July

2026-07-09 A Madison Square Garden database leak showed that they tracked and categorized hundreds of celebrities, labeling them “LGBTQIA”, “DO NOT HOST”, and low to high risk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuOT7B7jsWA&list=WL&index=4&t=31s

https://www.wired.com/story/madison-square-garden-celebrity-database-surveillance/

2026-07-24 During the rescheduled correspondence dinner Trump quipped, “This place is really the largest group of Trump derangement syndrome people ever put together at one time, I suspect. Some of you are lucky that our last dinner was cut short, because I had brought with me what would possibly have been—I’m telling you, I had something. I was going to go after you…” and subsequently, “Your lives were really in danger the last time. But on the plus side, your careers were saved”. Then he took jabs at Kaitlan Collins, mocked Dylan Mulvaney, insulted Anderson Cooper and Don Lemon, and targeted opponents.

THE CLIP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK6tA74tOaE

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/jul/24/donald-trump-tariffs-white-house-correspondents-dinner-latest-news-updates

https://www.c-span.org/clip/public-affairs-event/president-trump-speaks-at-the-rescheduled-white-house-correspondents-association-dinner/5203481

TRANSCRIPT https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/07/24/watch_president_donald_trumps_white_house_correspondents_dinner_speech.html

KAITLAN COLLINS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQjg_TtO71o

KAITLAN COLLINS https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/trump-hijacks-correspondents-dinner-speech